Here is a good rebuttal to the Washington Post’s propagandizing against the new school curriculum standards in Texas. Another day, another effort to stir up hysteria against some policy that goes against the liberal grain. Maybe Los Angeles and San Francisco will add Texas to their list of states to boycott.

This has to be one of the most biased “news” items ever from the AP, and that’s saying something. It begins: “A far-right faction of the Texas State Board of Education succeeded Friday in injecting conservative ideals into social studies, history and economics lessons that will be taught to millions of students for the next …

There’s this meme developing among liberals that is so stupid it makes our head hurt, but they seem to think it makes sense. From Politico: Sarah Palin’s personal story, and her views on personal morality, are at the core of her politics and of why she was nominated, and why she’d energized the conservative base. …

From The Oregonian, (Via Dennis Prager’s Townhall blog): MCMINNVILLE — A judge dismissed charges this morning against the two Patton Middle School teens accused of sexual harassment for swatting girls on the buttocks. Judge John L. Collins said he acted “in the interests of justice” after both prosecutors and the boys’ defense lawyers said four …

Wow. We knew John Edwards is oily, disingenuous, and phony to the core, but we did not know he is also apparently a real ignoramus. Via the Captain’s Quarters blog: “I’m going to be honest with you — I don’t know a lot about Cuba’s healthcare system,” Edwards, D-N.C., said at an event in Oskaloosa, …

Via The Oregonian: The two boys tore down the hall of Patton Middle School after lunch, swatting the bottoms of girls as they ran — what some kids later said was a common form of greeting. But bottom-slapping is against policy in McMinnville Public Schools. So a teacher’s aide sent the gawky seventh-graders to the …

Pavlovian cries of “racism” from the unthinking left are as surprising as the Sun rising every morning, but they’re still irritating. A classic example comes at the expense of Newt Gingrich, who recently apologized, en español, for some ill-chosen words about English immersion vs. bilingual education. Mr. Gingrich initially said: “We should replace bilingual education …

Proving once again what a genius he is when it comes to political acumen, John Kerry seems to have insulted all the U.S. troops in Iraq by implying they’re uneducated and not “smart”. You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make …

Blogger Sister Toldjah has a good writeup on the ruling by a California judge overturning the mandate that all high school students pass a test of basic math and English proficiency before receiving a high school diploma. The test requires “that high school graduates score at least 60 percent on a test of eighth-grade math …

Remember the days when President Clinton was impeached for lying under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit, and the Democrats kept telling everyone the government had no business “in people’s bedrooms”? (Who knew the president slept in the Oval Office?) And remember how during the debates about whether the government should redefine marriage – a …

The New York Times reports on another poll showing President Bush’s approval ratings on all fronts to be in the toilet. No news there. What really stood out in the article was summarized in the opening paragraph: Americans have a bleaker view of the country’s direction than at any time in more than two decades, …

From the Houston Chronicle (via Drudge), we have a story of a high school teacher encouraging students to rally in support of illegal immigration. But that’s not the bad part of the story: Rios, who still retains his duties as an English-as-a-second-language teacher, was copying and distributing a flier that read: “We gots 2 stay …